Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins t…
Dead wee detail: whit did the herd wear at the wedding?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dead wee detail, herd · What happens: do, wear · To what, where: wedding
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 2008 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins the princess by untying the heads, then is taken to the loch» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 detail | amod |
| 2 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 detail | amod |
| 3 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 whit | punct |
| 5 | whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 detail | conj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 herd | det |
| 8 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wear | nsubj |
| 9 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 did | parataxis |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 wedding | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wedding | det |
| 12 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wear | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Dead wee detail and whit | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wear | present | the herd | the wedding | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at wedding=Source |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1
the princess's green gown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gown | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 princess | case |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gown | amod |
| 5 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a plain brown frock fae the dairy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 frock | det |
| 2 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 frock | amod |
| 3 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 frock | amod |
| 4 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fae | nsubj |
| 5 | fae | fae | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dairy | det |
| 7 | dairy | dairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fae | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fae | past | a plain brown frock | the dairy | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the giant's golden dress
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dress | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 giant | case |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dress | amod |
| 5 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the sea-maiden's silver frock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maiden | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 sea | punct |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frock | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 maiden | case |
| 6 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 frock | amod |
| 7 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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